A02 Sources Sought Notice FD LMR Recompete.pdf

THIS IS A Sources Sought Notice ONLY. This is a Sources Sought Notice and should not be construed as a solicitation announcement. The submission of this information is for planning purposes only. It is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government to procure any services, nor is it the intent of the Mission and Installation Contracting Command (MICC) – Fort Belvoir, Virginia to award a contract based on this Request for Information (RFI) or otherwise pay for the information sought. The Government is seeking responses to this Sources Sought Notice from all interested businesses capable of providing the requirement. Small businesses, in all socioeconomic categories (including, 8(a) business development programs, HUBZone, service-disabled veteran-owned, (SDVOSB) woman-owned small business (WOSB), small, disadvantaged business (SDB), economically disadvantaged women owned small business (EDWOSB) are highly encouraged to identify capabilities in meeting the requirements.

MICC – Fort Belvoir is seeking preliminary market research information from capable and reliable sources to gain knowledge of potential qualified business sources capable of providing all personnel, equipment, tools, materials, supervision, and other items and non-personal services to provide maintenance and repairs of the Land Mobile Radio and Emergency Vehicle Equipment (LMR-EV) for the United States Army Garrison (USAG) Fort Detrick, Directorate of Operations (DoO) as defined in this Performance Work Statement (PWS). The Government shall not exercise any supervision or control over the contract service providers performing the services herein. Such contract service providers shall be accountable solely to the Contractor who, in turn is responsible to the Government.

All employees shall be vetted IAW AR190-13. The contractor shall perform to the standards in this contract.

The Directorate of Operations (DoO) has over 137 handheld radios, 40 mobile radios, 4 desktop radios, and 47 vehicles with emergency equipment that needs to be repaired or services when the equipment no longer functions property. The vehicle is replaced, and the radios and equipment need to be removed from the vehicle being turned in and installed into the new vehicles. Equipment that malfunction needs to be repaired to keep operational. The objective is to award a contract to a vendor that can ensure that all of the LMR-EV equipment is kept up and running with as little down time as possible.

At this time, equipment for the Harris Land Mobile Radio System falls under Harris Corporation intellectual property rights and the proprietary protocols represent a patent, copyright or secret process and are, therefore, currently only available from the manufacturer, Harris Corporation. As such, only authorized Vendors are capable of providing sales and service support for the Harris Land Mobile Radio System.

This notice is issued solely for information and planning purposes – it does not constitute a Request for Quote (RFQ)/Invitation for Bid (IFB)/Request for Proposal (RFP) or a promise to issue an RFQ, IFB or RFP in the future. This notice does not commit the U.S. Government to contract for any supply or service. Further, the U.S. Government is not seeking quotes, bids or proposals at this time and will not accept unsolicited proposals in response to this source sought notice. The U.S. Government will not pay for any information or administrative costs incurred in response to this notice. Submittals will not be returned to the responder. Not responding to this notice does not preclude participation in any future RFQ or IFB or RFP, if any is issued. If a solicitation is released, it will be synopsized on the System Award Management (SAM) https://www.sam.gov or sam.gov. It is the responsibility of potential offerors https://www.sam.gov/ to monitor the System Award Management (SAM) https://www.sam.gov or sam.gov for additional information pertaining to this requirement. The anticipated NAICS code(s) is/are: 811210 Electronic and Precision Equipment Repair and Maintenance, with a size standard of $34.0M.

Responses to this Sources Sought Notice shall be e-mailed to the Contract Specialist, Rickey G.

Hampton, at Rickey.G.Hampton.civ@army.mil, with a with a courtesy copy (cc) to Kenneth L. Mitchell, Contracting Officer, at Kenneth.L.Mitchell.civ@army.mil, no later than 30 May 2024 at 12:00 p.m.

Eastern Time.

In response to this source sought, please provide:

1) Name of the firm, point of contact, phone number, email address, DUNS number, CAGE code, a statement regarding small business status (including small business type(s)/certifications(s) such as SDB, 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB, etc.) and the corresponding NAICS code.

2) Identify whether your firm is interested in competing for this requirement as a prime contractor or not. Identify subcontracting, joint ventures or teaming arrangement that will be pursued, if any.

3) Information in sufficient detail regarding previous experience (indicate whether as a prime contractor or subcontractor) on similar requirements (include size, scope, complexity, timeframe, government or commercial), pertinent certifications, etc., that will facilitate making a capability determination.

The capability packages for this source sought are not a proposal, but rather statements regarding the company’s existing experience in relation to the areas specified above.

No solicitation mailing list will be compiled. No phone calls will be accepted. Capability packages shall not exceed five (5) pages.

Attachment 1: Current Performance Work Statement https://www.sam.gov/